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Top mentioned books
Here are the most frequently recommended books on the Big Think podcast:
#1 Mentioned in 7 episodes
The anthropic cosmological principle
Frank J. Tipler
John D. Barrow
#2 Mentioned in 6 episodes
The Three-Body Problem
Cixin Liu
#3 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Corruptible
Brian Klaas
#4 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Of Boys and Men
Richard V. Reeves
#5 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Longpath
Becoming the Great Ancestors Our Future Needs
Ari Wallach
#6 Mentioned in 5 episodes
Fluke
Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters
Brian Klaas
#7 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Talent
How to Identify Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Around the World
Tyler Cowen
Daniel Gross
#8 Mentioned in 4 episodes
2001
A Space Odyssey
Arthur C. Clarke
#9 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Black Holes, The Key to Understanding the Universe
Brian Cox
#10 Mentioned in 4 episodes
High Conflict
Why We Get Trapped and How We Get Out
Amanda Ripley
#11 Mentioned in 4 episodes
The Unthinkable
who survives when disaster strikes and why
Amanda Ripley
#12 Mentioned in 4 episodes
Tiny Experiments
How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
#13 Mentioned in 3 episodes
John Stuart Mill
Victorian Firebrand
Richard Reeves
Richard Reeves
#14 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Free Speech: A History from Socrates to Social Media
Jacob Mchangama
#15 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
#16 Mentioned in 3 episodes
The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Lewis Perry
#17 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Good Anxiety
Wendy Suzuki
#18 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Dream hoarders
How the American Upper Middle Class Is Leaving Everyone Else in the Dust, Why That Is a Problem, and What to Do About It
Richard V. Reeves
#19 Mentioned in 3 episodes
Everyday Espionage: Winning the Workplace and Social Game
Andrew Bustamante
#20 Mentioned in 3 episodes
After the Ecstasy, the Laundry
Jack Kornfield
